Jen Neale Receives RBC Bronwen Wallace Award

Congratulations go out to Jen Neale who won the $5,000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers for her short-story “Elk-Headed Man.” The award, named in memory of writer and mentor Bronwen Wallace, honours emerging writers under the age of 35 who are currently unpublished in book form. The 28-year-old Vancouverite’s story was selected from 110 submissions.

It’s time to cast your votes for the “people’s choice” of literary awards: The Second Annual CBC Bookie Awards. This year’s finalists are broken down into ten categories with five nominees in each. The finalists represent the country’s favourite CanLit reads (with the exception of two international categories).

Now it’s up to you to decide which titles will take home a Bookie. So head over to CBC Books to vote for your favourite in each of the following categories:

Literary Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Thriller, Mystery or Crime
Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction
Young Adult
Graphic Novel or Comic Book
Short Story Collection
International Fiction